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From Infectious Greed: Musing About the Money Culture with Paul Kedrosky:
Matt Drudge, creator of the Drudge Report online scandal sheet, is having his tenth anniversary right about now. Yahoo, the online search firm, is turning ten this week. Amazon.com, that late-bloomer, turns ten this summer.
In case you hadn't noticed, the Internet is no longer new. Granted, the underlying technology has been around since the 1960s, so it is already middle-aged. But most of us, myself included, think the modern Internet started when the first Netscape browser appeared in late 1994. Yahoo, Amazon, and, yes, Drudge came along shortly thereafter. And:
I sometimes wonder how we managed. I literally sit in my office now and then, while working on a document (online), reading articles (online), sending emails (online), and channel the spirit of a teenager wondering quasi-anthropologically what ancient 1980s society did in offices. What did people do? How did they communicate? It couldn't possibly have been by phone the whole time, could it? The mind boggles. It is hard to remember those far-off days, isn't it?
posted by James DeLong @ 2:27 PM | Internet: P2P, Search Engines...
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